19-year-old wins UN N.5m
03 July 2018 |
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Winners of essay competition were rewarded with cash prizes at an annual memorial lecture for late Babatunde Osotimehin. The overall winner went home with N500,000 and first and second runners-up got N300,000 and N200,000 respectively.
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